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Thursday October 17,19% Vol. CXXIX, No. 35
Headlines
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USC doesn't look Rosey at midpoint
After a busy first five games filled with injuries, upsets and off-field troubles, unranked USC opens the second half of the season at ASU seeking to regroup and clinging to Rose Bowl hopes.
Sports, page 20
'Vertigo' amazes with restored print
In the newly restored version of Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Vertigo," co-stars Kim Novak and James Stewart shine. Stereo sound and a 70mm print are a few of the improvements to the film.
Diversions, page 10
Have no fear—nice people do exist
In an age when most people are caught up with their own agendas to be friendly to their common man, editorial writer Colin Smith points out that nice people really are out there, even in Los Angeles.
Viewpoint, page 4
Asian Career Fair, beach clean-up
The Southern California Network is hosting the Asian Career Fair II today at the Davidson Conference Center at 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The companies attending include IBM, Citibank, American Express, Philip Morris, The Prudential, Nabisco, New York Life, Pacific Bell and many others recruiting new hires.
• • •
The Fall 19% pledge class of Alpha Kappa Psi is having a beach clean-up at Santa Monica Beach on Saturday, Oct. 19. They will be meeting at the Hebrew Student Union parking lot at 9 a.m.
The pledge class welcomes all students, fraternities, sororities and any other campus organizations to participate in the event.
For more information, please contact Ryan at (213) 764-9025.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
DaMrojan
Debate team tops all competitions
By Philip Guidry
Staff Writer
The USC Debate Team has argued its way to the top after more than a century of competitions. The team is now ranked No. 1 in the nation by the American Forensics Association.
In March, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page feature in its Metro section profiling coach David Damus and his four top debaters. Juniors Marc Aquino and Greg Bevan and sophomores Andy Weitz and Armands Revelins are candidates for the individual national championship as they enter the fall 1996 debate season. For a team that was created in 1880, the year of the university's inception, the extra preparation has paid great dividends.
"We're way into it," Aquino said. "When you re competing at this level, you eat it, sleep it, drink it and basically live it."
In its first competition of the season, Revelins placed first and Bevans came in second. The team defeated Weber State University in the final round. Freshman Lindsay
Harrison placed fifth and USC won three of the five top speaker awards at the event, held at the University of Utah.
Damus described the benefits of competing on his squad.
"This teaches them how to research, to write and (to) improve oral communication skills," he said.
The team members generally work an average of 20 hours eacn _ week honing their skills for future ’ competition. Past topics have included homelessness, health care, environment and criminal procedure. Intense research for competition has another effect on the debaters.
"After working for competition we become like walking libraries," Heitz said.
When discussing the team's main competitors in the debate arena, the responses are varied.
"I'd say Redlands, Dartmouth, Michigan and Harvard are our primary competition," said Weitz, who is majoring in political science.
Revelins, who is majoring in philosophy, added his own assessment of tne schools that could pose a
(See Debate, page 2)
Rock on
Troy Witt / Daily Trojan
The Monets performed in Hahn Plaza Wednesday. The band will be playing at the Coconut Teasier on Sunset Boulevard Friday night.
Hunger coalition honors World Food Day
By Erin Phibbs
Staff Writer
The Southern California Interfaith Hunger Coalition began a new year of service Wednesday with World Food Day Fair at Menlo Avenue Elementary School. The local fair was held to create a new garden, educate children on nutrition and host a food and clothing drive.
"This is a real opportunity for people to give back to the community," said Liz Riley, executive director of Interfaith.
"Today is a great day because this fair will help kids learn a lot, and we're all very excited."
Interfaith Hunger Coalition is staffed by members of AmeriCorps, President
Clinton's national service program. AmeriCorps consists of more than 20,000 Americans who perform services for local communities in exchange for awards that may be used for college, job training or repaying student loans.
"Interfaith is a service organization which has been around for 22 years," Riley said. "We
promote food security, education, advocacy for important issues, (moving) people off government benefits and empowerment of people."
ing
Wednesday was the building of a school garden at Menlo Elementary, which is located just south of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Stephen Salva, a first grade teacher at Menlo, was responsible for
espc
litn.
recruiting Interfaitl "Salva came to a 'Growini Kids' workshop, said he wantei a garden, and ne got one," said
Tina Magana, gardening team leader for Interfaith. "Every week representatives from Interfaith will hold sessions in each class, and then along with the students, we will maintain and groom the garden plots as well."
The new garden, dedicated to deceased teacher Mary Ciesla, was designed to educate the schoolchildren about local and world hunger.
"I got a L.A. Gardening Partners Grant for the community garden," Salva said. "It only (See Menlo, page 14)
Services held today for writer
Services for Leslie Sue "Morgan" Segal, a student in the Master's of Professional Writing program, will be held today in West Los Angeles. She committed suicide Monday in her apartment. Last month she turned 29 years old.
Segal was a staff writer for the Daily Tftjjan and was working toward her master's in the writing program. She also wrote for Rapport Magazine and UCLA Connection.
"Writing was her love," her father Robert Segal said. "We are currently t-ying to get some of her works published; they're quite beautiful."
Segal earned her undergraduate degree at UC Santa Barbara and worked for the Daily Nexus, the student newspaper. She also worked for Step Up on Second, the publication of a mental health center in Santa Monica, and worked with Unity L. A., a youth magazine, last summer.
Services will be held at noon Thursday at Hillside Funeral Home; 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, near Sepulveua Boulevard in West Los Angeles.
—from staff reports
Forum held to discuss Islam intergroup conflicts
By Tony Aimone
Staff Writer
An expert on Jewish and Palestinian conflict led a forum on intergroup conflicts Wednesday morning at the Montgomery Ross Fisher Building.
David Bargal, an associate professor at Jerusalem's Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, compared the intergroup problems in modern Israel to similar problems in Los Angeles and the United States as a whole.
With over 5 million people living in Israel, Bargal implied that there is little chance of those people agreeing on any one cultural ideology. In pluralistic governments such as the United States, group fights cannot be stopped, he said. Because of this, he advised the social workers in attendance not to ignore or solve conflicts, but find a way to manage them.
Bargal, in an attempt to solve the problems of social groups, suggested a class to educate children about ways of managing problems. The first step is that "one must admit conflict," Bargal said.
"We should near and far reiterate that we should find ways to live with the country
which will enable us to get along more with our ethnicity and to work with—not against—the conflict," he said. "We should learn this before trying to solve it."
These problems are caused by a variety of different theories. Bargal suggested that intergroup competition, such as fighting over land or a major body of water, could be solved by installing a universal set of goals for the conflicting groups. Other ideas discussed concerned the cognitive process, stereotypes and social identity—a theory that the type of state a society becomes is dependent on the people around it Bargal wished he could elaborate on certain concepts, but due to time constraints he could not He currently teaches courses in occupational social work, human resource management, organizational behavior and organizational change,
The hour-long event was the first in a series sponsored by the USC School of Social Work's Hamovitch Research Center. Future programs include speakers on work force diversity, young women, community support programs, treatment in end-stage disease and stress experienced by AIDS caregivers.

Thursday October 17,19% Vol. CXXIX, No. 35
Headlines
. ,
USC doesn't look Rosey at midpoint
After a busy first five games filled with injuries, upsets and off-field troubles, unranked USC opens the second half of the season at ASU seeking to regroup and clinging to Rose Bowl hopes.
Sports, page 20
'Vertigo' amazes with restored print
In the newly restored version of Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Vertigo," co-stars Kim Novak and James Stewart shine. Stereo sound and a 70mm print are a few of the improvements to the film.
Diversions, page 10
Have no fear—nice people do exist
In an age when most people are caught up with their own agendas to be friendly to their common man, editorial writer Colin Smith points out that nice people really are out there, even in Los Angeles.
Viewpoint, page 4
Asian Career Fair, beach clean-up
The Southern California Network is hosting the Asian Career Fair II today at the Davidson Conference Center at 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The companies attending include IBM, Citibank, American Express, Philip Morris, The Prudential, Nabisco, New York Life, Pacific Bell and many others recruiting new hires.
• • •
The Fall 19% pledge class of Alpha Kappa Psi is having a beach clean-up at Santa Monica Beach on Saturday, Oct. 19. They will be meeting at the Hebrew Student Union parking lot at 9 a.m.
The pledge class welcomes all students, fraternities, sororities and any other campus organizations to participate in the event.
For more information, please contact Ryan at (213) 764-9025.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
DaMrojan
Debate team tops all competitions
By Philip Guidry
Staff Writer
The USC Debate Team has argued its way to the top after more than a century of competitions. The team is now ranked No. 1 in the nation by the American Forensics Association.
In March, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page feature in its Metro section profiling coach David Damus and his four top debaters. Juniors Marc Aquino and Greg Bevan and sophomores Andy Weitz and Armands Revelins are candidates for the individual national championship as they enter the fall 1996 debate season. For a team that was created in 1880, the year of the university's inception, the extra preparation has paid great dividends.
"We're way into it," Aquino said. "When you re competing at this level, you eat it, sleep it, drink it and basically live it."
In its first competition of the season, Revelins placed first and Bevans came in second. The team defeated Weber State University in the final round. Freshman Lindsay
Harrison placed fifth and USC won three of the five top speaker awards at the event, held at the University of Utah.
Damus described the benefits of competing on his squad.
"This teaches them how to research, to write and (to) improve oral communication skills," he said.
The team members generally work an average of 20 hours eacn _ week honing their skills for future ’ competition. Past topics have included homelessness, health care, environment and criminal procedure. Intense research for competition has another effect on the debaters.
"After working for competition we become like walking libraries," Heitz said.
When discussing the team's main competitors in the debate arena, the responses are varied.
"I'd say Redlands, Dartmouth, Michigan and Harvard are our primary competition," said Weitz, who is majoring in political science.
Revelins, who is majoring in philosophy, added his own assessment of tne schools that could pose a
(See Debate, page 2)
Rock on
Troy Witt / Daily Trojan
The Monets performed in Hahn Plaza Wednesday. The band will be playing at the Coconut Teasier on Sunset Boulevard Friday night.
Hunger coalition honors World Food Day
By Erin Phibbs
Staff Writer
The Southern California Interfaith Hunger Coalition began a new year of service Wednesday with World Food Day Fair at Menlo Avenue Elementary School. The local fair was held to create a new garden, educate children on nutrition and host a food and clothing drive.
"This is a real opportunity for people to give back to the community," said Liz Riley, executive director of Interfaith.
"Today is a great day because this fair will help kids learn a lot, and we're all very excited."
Interfaith Hunger Coalition is staffed by members of AmeriCorps, President
Clinton's national service program. AmeriCorps consists of more than 20,000 Americans who perform services for local communities in exchange for awards that may be used for college, job training or repaying student loans.
"Interfaith is a service organization which has been around for 22 years," Riley said. "We
promote food security, education, advocacy for important issues, (moving) people off government benefits and empowerment of people."
ing
Wednesday was the building of a school garden at Menlo Elementary, which is located just south of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Stephen Salva, a first grade teacher at Menlo, was responsible for
espc
litn.
recruiting Interfaitl "Salva came to a 'Growini Kids' workshop, said he wantei a garden, and ne got one," said
Tina Magana, gardening team leader for Interfaith. "Every week representatives from Interfaith will hold sessions in each class, and then along with the students, we will maintain and groom the garden plots as well."
The new garden, dedicated to deceased teacher Mary Ciesla, was designed to educate the schoolchildren about local and world hunger.
"I got a L.A. Gardening Partners Grant for the community garden," Salva said. "It only (See Menlo, page 14)
Services held today for writer
Services for Leslie Sue "Morgan" Segal, a student in the Master's of Professional Writing program, will be held today in West Los Angeles. She committed suicide Monday in her apartment. Last month she turned 29 years old.
Segal was a staff writer for the Daily Tftjjan and was working toward her master's in the writing program. She also wrote for Rapport Magazine and UCLA Connection.
"Writing was her love," her father Robert Segal said. "We are currently t-ying to get some of her works published; they're quite beautiful."
Segal earned her undergraduate degree at UC Santa Barbara and worked for the Daily Nexus, the student newspaper. She also worked for Step Up on Second, the publication of a mental health center in Santa Monica, and worked with Unity L. A., a youth magazine, last summer.
Services will be held at noon Thursday at Hillside Funeral Home; 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, near Sepulveua Boulevard in West Los Angeles.
—from staff reports
Forum held to discuss Islam intergroup conflicts
By Tony Aimone
Staff Writer
An expert on Jewish and Palestinian conflict led a forum on intergroup conflicts Wednesday morning at the Montgomery Ross Fisher Building.
David Bargal, an associate professor at Jerusalem's Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, compared the intergroup problems in modern Israel to similar problems in Los Angeles and the United States as a whole.
With over 5 million people living in Israel, Bargal implied that there is little chance of those people agreeing on any one cultural ideology. In pluralistic governments such as the United States, group fights cannot be stopped, he said. Because of this, he advised the social workers in attendance not to ignore or solve conflicts, but find a way to manage them.
Bargal, in an attempt to solve the problems of social groups, suggested a class to educate children about ways of managing problems. The first step is that "one must admit conflict," Bargal said.
"We should near and far reiterate that we should find ways to live with the country
which will enable us to get along more with our ethnicity and to work with—not against—the conflict," he said. "We should learn this before trying to solve it."
These problems are caused by a variety of different theories. Bargal suggested that intergroup competition, such as fighting over land or a major body of water, could be solved by installing a universal set of goals for the conflicting groups. Other ideas discussed concerned the cognitive process, stereotypes and social identity—a theory that the type of state a society becomes is dependent on the people around it Bargal wished he could elaborate on certain concepts, but due to time constraints he could not He currently teaches courses in occupational social work, human resource management, organizational behavior and organizational change,
The hour-long event was the first in a series sponsored by the USC School of Social Work's Hamovitch Research Center. Future programs include speakers on work force diversity, young women, community support programs, treatment in end-stage disease and stress experienced by AIDS caregivers.